Sentences with phrase «coalition negotiations on»

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Italy's parliament is convening for a vote on Friday that could pave the way for negotiations between rival parties to form a coalition government.

The first phase of exit negotiations should have concluded in October, but only ended last week after a last - minute push to bring May's junior coalition partner — Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)-- on board with the deal.

Angela Merkel's CDU and the SPD have agreed on a blueprint for formal grand coalition negotiations.

People should start putting pressure on these parties to begin such negotiations as soon as possible so that immediately after the election they would be prepared to go to the Governor General with the request that they be recognized as a majority coalition government.

With the Syriza party winning the early Greek election and forming an anti-austerity coalition government, all eyes are on how the new government will manage debt negotiations with the Troika ---- the ECB, European Commission and International Monetary Fund.

Even if negotiations are started by the current Coalition government, its position on Trident and Faslane may be altered by the new government.

Much will depend on the negotiations between the three potential coalition partners and their willingness to address the issue.

There will be a sense of urgency to the coalition talks to form a new British government because the Brexit clock is ticking: formal negotiations between the British government and the EU are due to start on June 19 — just 10 days away.

But he has earned Cameron's gratitude by taking a hefty pay cut to enter No 10 on a special adviser's salary of # 140,000 a year, having helped with the negotiations that created the Coalition Government.

I thus claim it as evidence of why renegotiation / reform is a rock on which a second series of coalition negotiations post-2015 could founder.

While it took almost a full hour - and - a-half for it to be formally acknowledged, what viewers were actually seeing from the start of the debate were coalition negotiations unfolding before their very eyes — as the Conservative Party press office pointed out on Twitter.

Plaid formed a coalition with Labour, making progress on a referendum on further powers the key plank of their negotiations.

«The government goes into European negotiations with no policy on European defence; it is not mentioned in the coalition agreement; no policy on European energy - also not mentioned; and on justice and home affairs, all they can say is that they will review cases one by one; no principles, no plans,» he said.

Unlock Democracy's protest on Saturday succeeded in attracting support from Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg and the group is hoping its efforts will help strengthen the party's resolve in calling for a referendum on electoral reform as coalition negotiations continue.

The outcome of any coalition negotiations will depend in part on the relative importance of the two issue areas discussed above.

Certainly this is the case in Scotland, where voters need to know on what grounds they are voting in 2015, whilst rump UK voters can not make an informed choice without some understanding of how coalition negotiations might unfold.

Yesterday's concessions by the Coalition, in respect of the public sector pensions negotiations, verge on an unconditional surrender to the unions, perhaps on a scale unprecedented in the history of public sector labour negotiations.

With a coalition on the cards again for the next government, a capacity to compromise on, and in some cases jettison, manifesto and election pledges will play an important role in any negotiations.

Gus O'Donnell, the former cabinet secretary, recently reflected on the 2010 coalition negotiations, arguing that things «could be even messier» this May, and that «it could take quite a lot longer next time to actually form a government.»

«While everyone can agree that compromise is an important part of the negotiations process, those compromises should not come at the expense of the hard working students who are desperately counting on Albany to do the right thing,» the coalition said.

The compromise on campaign finance appeared particularly uncertain on Saturday, after State Senator Jeff Klein, the co-leader of the Senate's governing coalition, said in a statement that negotiations over public financing were «not yet done.»

There are several lessons we must learn not just from the negotiations in May 2010 (for which Labour were unprepared) but also from relations between the two parties in the coalition and the continuing impact of coalition government on their members.

«Jamaica» coalition talks collapsed on Sunday night after Christian Lindner (Fdp) said no to governing with the CDU and Greens, and Angela Merkel was forced to acknowledge that the margins for negotiation were depleted.

A statement by Penguin Random House added: «The book will provide critical insights into key relationships in Westminster, global conflicts, the coalition negotiations of 2010, as well as the referendums on Scottish Independence and Britain's exit from the EU — in each instance, offering vital lessons for the future.

Tony Benn has called on coalition forces to enter peace negotiations with the Taliban at a protest against the war in central London.

A coalition of schools groups — ranging from the umbrella organization for the state's teachers union and the Council on School Superintendents — called for a variety of funding reforms for districts around the state ahead of next year's budget negotiations.

In their defence, they only saw the bill for the first time the day before the summer recess and began to debate it on their first full day back, but all the same it is hard to understand the official support of Liberal Democrats, who had made transparency in lobbying a major demand in coalition negotiations.

When it comes to coalition negotiations, the first demand on the table will be more money for Northern Ireland.

Alongside this, enacting a version of the Hayden Phillips Review on party funding was one of the so - called «red lines» in the coalition negotiations between the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives.

Number one takes Balls back to the coalition negotiations with Labour, when he and others refused to compromise on the bulk of Labour's manifesto.

In that same 22 Days in May postscript, Laws also notes that the Lib Dems» retreat towards economic liberalism, combined with a move towards social liberalism for the Tories under David Cameron, gave the parties some common ground on which to start coalition negotiations.

The universal benefit will form the centrepiece of the Coalition's work on welfare and it is possible only after months of fearsome, eyeball - to - eyeball negotiations with George Osborne — although Mr Duncan Smith cheekily refers to it as «a polite conversation.»

Whether there existed something acceptable which Labour could offer in exchange would of course depend on negotiations, However, this sort of agreement has significant advantages over post-election deals about coalitions or lesser forms of cooperation — they require neither agreement of a programme (which inevitably means political compromise) nor standing down in areas (which can have detrimental effects in the longer term or on other elections such as Euro elections fought over larger geographical units).

But Clegg had earlier told Cameron that the negotiations with Miliband showed why he did not want to enter a coalition with the Labour, despite the fact that Labour and the Lib Dems were closer on press reform.

The election, held on 6 May, resulted in the first hung parliament in the UK in 36 years, sparking a series of negotiations which would form the first coalition government since the Second World War.

And, amazingly, a survey of activists found that 30 % of them thought that electoral reform should not be a «deal - breaker» in post-election negotiations on forming a coalition government.

When negotiations started in June, the diplomats, who negotiate on all manner of U.N. declarations, were slow to come to the table with their proposals, according to Ann Keeling, chair of the NCD Alliance (NCDA), a coalition of more than 2000 NCD organizations from 170 countries, which has been close to the negotiations and was pushing for a document with more teeth.

In patching together the fragile coalition of interests needed to successfully pursue its bid, the state approached negotiations like Middle East peace talks, seeking agreement first on broader issues and putting off fights and controversies over specifics.

Anyhow, there were no major developments on German coalition negotiations, which likely contributed to the lull in the euro's price action as traders waited for actionable news.

Through her work on the Collective Leadership with La Via Campesina North America (LVC - NA) region as a representative of the Rural Coalition, she has collectively developed strategies that advocate for a stronger civil society voice on food sovereignty and in negotiations that represented the Global south in the North.

The campaign has also created important opportunities for student activists to learn about coalition building, negotiation and compromise, with campus forums and events sparking critical reflection on what climate change means for society and how everyday citizens, especially young people, can become involved.

Coalitions for action on SLCPs outside the UN climate convention, such as the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, help to demonstrate that success is possible and build confidence for advancing action in the negotiations.

«From this decision to China's groundbreaking cap - and - trade program and recent commitments from world leaders at the UN Climate Negotiations in Paris, the writing on the wall is clear: Coal exports are the wrong direction,» said Cesia Kearns, Deputy Director with the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign, and Co-Director of the Power Past Coal coalition.

Commenting on criticism of the Lavoisier Group by Clive Hamilton, the Cooler Heads Coalition notes that «Hamilton accuses the Lavoisier Group of painting the UN's global warming negotiations as «an elaborate conspiracy in which hundreds of climate scientists have twisted their results to support the climate change theory in order to protect their research funding» and adds, «Sounds plausible to us.»

Beyond the individual pain, the Budget has taken a wrecking ball to the health system — not to mention years of hard work on the national health reform negotiations — and taken us back to the bad old days of blame game and cost shifting, with Premiers calling for voters to lobby the Coalition party room and Senate to defeat the cuts.

Families are rated on these two dimensions by the structure and flexibility they display in areas such as power, parental coalitions, family mythology, goal - directed behaviour, negotiation, autonomy and family affect (Anderson & Gavazzi, 1990).